This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors. For the first time here is one guide that combines serious businessplanning studio design and audio engineering as interconnected aspects of starting and running a studio. Numerous practical examples and applications throw light on the daily workings of a recording studio including recording marketing sales employees and taxes. Readers with no business or sound recording experience will find what they need to start and succeed in creating a sound recording studio.